Quotes from Stuart Land

Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.

All football, hockey and soccer teams would now have to wear tutus." Brian continued. "Well, I like baseball, and we don't have to wear tutus because we don't beat up on each other." "Well put, son." I gave him the thumbs up, while picturing both dugouts racing out onto the field in pink and blue taffeta tutus as they lit into each other in a massive brawl over a bad call at first base.

How do we end up doing whatever it is we're doing? If people didn't already have an affinity for a task, would they pursue it? Do people start out saying to themselves, gee, I suck at this math stuff, I guess I'll become an astrophysicist.

I hated involving her in this, but knew I already had, even though I was doing it now. Trying to understand all this time-altering stuff made my head spin. Maybe one day I might learn how to contact Einstein and he could answer those questions.

I spun around: the room was so empty, I wasn't even in it.

PJ McAvoy was downright evil. It ran in his blood and grew stronger with every hacking chain-smoking breath. I'd bet if you could see inside his veins, those corpulent white blood cells would be attacking each other out of pure spite.

I wasn't an indecisive person, because I could make decisions easily. Decisions making is easy when you don't care which way the decision goes. But please, I'm not a milquetoast guy. Sometimes I'd specifically go out of my way to be stubborn just to show how manly I could be.

I justified these pants every weekend with the reinforcing thought that one can never have enough extra pockets, just in case.

I'd never been one to believe in my powers of intuition. I always thought it was more like guessing and a certain amount of the time you were right, and other times, you weren't.

Someone stood on the portico leaning on a shovel.

You should learn some manners, Ollie, but I realize Hell's Kitchen boys were raised by their momma's pimps and don't know no better.